C. The 12-year-old girl played the trumpet very poorly.

  D. Clifford was a good music teacher.

28. “ Struck … as appropriate ” in Line 1, Paragraph 2 most probably means ______.

  A. seemed to be appropriate

  B. proved to be appropriate

  C. happened to be appropriate

  D. found to be appropriate

29. With good reading skills, you can ______.

  A. understand anything you read without difficulty

  B. work out the author's meaning if only you concentrate on the book

  C. understand what you read with the help of a good dictionary

  D. concentrate on whatever you read

30. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that Developing Reading skills ______.

  A. is directed to elementary school students

  B. centers around vocabulary building skills

  C. offers elementary reading skills

  D. aims at helping students read better

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

If you asked people today why they used the telephone to communicate with their friends or why they turned to the television for entertainment, they would look at you as if you were crazy.   We don't think about a telephone or a television or a car as being rare.   These things have become such an essential part of life that they are no longer noticed, let alone remarked upon.

In the same way, within a decade no one will notice the Worldwide Web( 互联网 ).   It will just be there, an essential part of life.   It will be a reflex to turn to the Web for shopping, education, entertainment and communication, just as it is natural today to pick up the telephone to talk to someone.

There is an enormous interest in the Web.   Yet it is still in its infancy( 婴儿期 ).   The technology   and   the speed of response are leaping forward.   This will move more and more people to the Web as part of their everyday lives.   Eventually ,everyone's business card will have an electronic mail address.   Every lawyer, every doctor and every business — from large to small — will be connected.

To predict that it will take over ten years for these changes to happen is probably pessimistic( 悲观的 ).   We usually overestimate what we can do in two years and underestimate what we can do in ten.   The Web will be as much a way of life as the car by 2008. probably before.